Posted on 06/04/2021 7:15:30 AM PDT by ebb tide
The Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum which liberated the Roman Mass is under attack by reactionary forces who want to abrogate or to dilute.
Paix-Liturgique.org (May 31) predicts that in future we may find ourselves in a situation similar to that which prevailed in the post-Conciliar years, "though under worse conditions for the Church as institution.” The webpage also stresses that in 2021 the Catholics of the Roman Rite are many in numbers, young, convinced and successful.
Today, the Novus Ordo Church has nothing in common with the solid machine it was in the first decades after the Council, Paix-Liturgique.org writes, "She has been bled dry in terms of priests, religious, and seminarians" and "practicing Catholics are getting ever older."
Further, the dioceses lack finances and the recent Covid-measures caused additionally about 30% of the faithful to disappear, “Catholicism has practically vanished from the public square.”
Paix-Liturgique.org reminds of what happened in 1969 when Paul VI attempted to "forbid" the Traditional Latin Mass, “Tridentine Masses kept on being celebrated as though nothing were the matter." Threats, obstacles, even persecution from the Vatican and the bishops didn't work: "Priests and laity went on doing ‘what the Church had always done,’ as Archbishop Lefebvre was fond of saying.”
In other words: Francis is about to pick a fight which will blow up in his face.
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